Thursday 7 April 2016

Update Lync LineURI with Active Directory Phone Number

In this series of Blog posts I will explain how we can use the Lync Powershell Modules to help automate some Bulk Lync user tasks. While most of these task can be completed using PowerShell Remoting using the OCSPowershell provider endpoint provided by the Lync server, some of the error forwarding through the proxy doesn't work as expected. In this case we can utilise the Lync Management Shell locally on our administration console.

Mass enabling Enterprise wide options in Lync can be laborious using the Control Panel, bulk changes can be best achieved using the Lync Management Shell. The Management Shell is a PowerShell session with the Lync Modules Imported at Runtime.

This is the second post in this Series detailing some tooling to help bulk enable an organisations Lync Users.

Wednesday 6 April 2016

Installing Lync Modules on Administrative Consoles

In this series of Blog posts I will explain how we can use the Lync Powershell Modules to help automate some Bulk Lync user tasks. While most of these task can be completed using PowerShell Remoting using the OCSPowershell provider endpoint provided by the Lync server, some of the error forwarding through the proxy doesn't work as expected. In this case we can utilise the Lync Management Shell locally on our administration console.

Monday 4 April 2016

Installing Parallels Desktop 10 Tools for Windows 10

I came across an issue when running a Windows 10 Enterprise guest in Parallels Desktop 10 where the "Install Parallels Tools" option was missing on the Actions menu, it should have looked something like this, but it wasn't there.